My crazy mother in law used to send memos addressed to Hoover ALL the time. She would read the scandal rags and conclude who the guilty party was and send J. Edgar himself a memo about it. She was so persistent and so profoundly irritating that the FBI called our county cops to see if they could do something about her!Yes my late mother in law harassed the FBI! Mrs Kravitz had nothing on my mother in law.

Nutsac_Jim:Lsherm: I don't buy it. Why would a UFO and aliens in the 50s look exactly like Hollywood thought UFOs looked in the 50s? A flying saucer? Please, it doesn't make sense from any aerodynamic or space travel perspective.

You seem to have a good amount of knowledge. Exactly what does an interstellar spacecraft look like?

iirc, this picture is from a Japanese wax museum or something, about the Roswell crash. Zipper is also a big giveaway. But that's not to say alien visitation isn't real.

Although, i think at this point, the majority who don't yet accept the reality are just being willfully ignorant because it doesn't fit with their world view. Or being even more ignorant and waiting for it to be widely accepted before they accept it themselves. There's copious amounts of evidence out there already, which has turned many a skeptic into a believer when they start looking into it. The two groups i've already mentioned never look into it, though, because deciding for yourself is hard. So much easier to just deny things that aren't commonly accepted, because if they were real, they'd be commonly accepted, in their feeble minds.

Electromax:Generally speaking, it seems sort of weird that the discovery of extraterrestrial life would be covered up for 50+ years. Wouldn't NASA have gotten some memos/guidance about switching up their priorities? Wouldn't the little green bodies be shriveled and decayed by now to the point that scientific advantage (which has apparently not manifest in military tech) would no longer be gained? What would be the point of hiding it this long, in the sense of protecting a secret or getting an advantage over other nations? Just to avoid a War of the Worlds public freakout?

And why wouldn't the mothership send more dudes to recover them? Seems like we would.

Well, according to MIB, it's better to withhold untold scientific advancements because "people are panicky'.

FTFA: Each one was occupied by three bodies of human shape but only 3 feet tall, dressed in metallic cloth of a very fine texture. Each body was bandaged in a manner similar to the blackout suits used by speed fliers and test pilots.

Oh great, now we'll be hearing from the conspiracy fruitcakes that this is proof the government is hiding information about aliens from the public. Herp a derp derp derp.

I'm sure this seems all scary and fantastical but the true explanation is really quite mundane. The saucers were simply high altitude weather balloons. The small bodies were simply chimpanzees in pressurized flight suits. This was nothing more than a simple test of high altitude flight suits using chimpanzees as test subjects. The balloons crashed and the chimps died. It was all just one big, mundane, secret experiment of terrestrial origin conducted by the apes so they could establish their secret space base on Mars. Nothing to see folks, move along.

A lot of people say that aliens first landed in Roswell, but that's bullroar. It was Blaine, Missouri, and there were several eyewitnesses:

"They took me off into a separate room; I seen 'em takin' different people off; different ones of us off in separate rooms and put me on a big white table and uh the guy that took me in there - to examine me I guess - he probed me and then I was in there I bet more than three or four hours, in that room, being probed and at one time or another these different ones of 'em came in, four or five or six of 'em at different times, and all of 'em probed me, uh, not all at once, you know, individually. Later on, years later, now, even still, uh, it's a funny thing - it happened on a Sunday and every Sunday about the time I was taken on board that ship I - find I have no feelings in my buttocks."

And there were phenomenal after-effects of the crop circle they left behind as well:

I've been coming to this circle for about five years, and measuring it. The diameter and the circumference are constantly changing, but the radius stays the same. Which brings me to the number 5. There are five letters in the word Blaine. Now, if you mix up the letters in the word Blaine, mix 'em around, eventually, you'll come up with Nebali. Nebali. The name of a planet in a galaxy way, way, way... way far away. And another thing. Once you go into that circle, the weather never changes. It is always 67 degrees with a 40% chance of rain. Always.

Radak:LordJiro: The odds against ANY alien life living anywhere near Earth (and existing at the same time as humanity) are astronomical. Let alone intelligent creatures with recognizably humanoid features who live near enough to visit

flynn80:Lsherm: I don't buy it. Why would a UFO and aliens in the 50s look exactly like Hollywood thought UFOs looked in the 50s? A flying saucer? Please, it doesn't make sense from any aerodynamic or space travel perspective.

Inter-dimensional rather than interstellar makes more logical sense to me.

Hey, if anyone wants to start a political party based on disbelief in conspiracy theories, count me in. I'm pretty tolerant about most opinions all across the left-right, libertarian-communitarian spectrum (I may disagree with you, but I respect your right to conceive and hold your opinion), but farking tinfoil hatters make me want to bite somebody.

Our arch-foes are Truthers, Birthers, all Glenn Beck and Alex Jones fans, and that biatch Jenny McCarthy. Our main platform is to ensure that nothing they want ever gets included in legislation or executive action.

The_Sponge:LordJiro: The odds against ANY alien life living anywhere near Earth (and existing at the same time as humanity) are astronomical. Let alone intelligent creatures with recognizably humanoid features who live near enough to visit

serial_crusher:The FBI has only occasionally been involved in investigating reports of UFOs and extraterrestrials. For a few years after the Roswell incident, Director Hoover did order his agents-the request of the Air Force-verify any UFO sightings. That practice ended in July 1950, four months after the Hottel memo, suggesting that our Washington Field Office didn't think enough of that flying saucer story to look into it

Or, that's when they learned whatever it was that they learned that made them so adamant about covering the aliens up.

They learned that nothing is uglier than a naked alien. You'd cover them up too.

LordJiro:The odds against ANY alien life living anywhere near Earth (and existing at the same time as humanity) are astronomical. Let alone intelligent creatures with recognizably humanoid features who live near enough to visit

Sorry, sci-fi fans.

Unless God decided to put them there. Having placed us upon the Earth, it would have been easy for Him to place them nearby.